There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, and yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth… the losing of our individual selves to […]
When we begin at the real beginning — when thought starts where alone it legitimately can start — it is forced onwards, from step to step, by an irresistible inward necessity, and cannot stop short till it has found its goal in the sphere of universal and absolute truth, or in that Infinite Mind which is at once the beginning […]
Loud clamour is always more or less insane. Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature, be these what they may. Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
Be absolute with death. Either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Merely, thou art death’s fool, For him thou labor’st by thy flight to shun, And yet run’st toward him still. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
How would you be If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? Oh, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man new mad. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
A sound direction is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it. Christian Nestell Bovee (1820 – 1904)
What we call conscience, is, in many instances, only a wholesome fear of the constable. Christian Nestell Bovee (1820 – 1904)
The world is his who can see through its pretension. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
